How To Install libXres.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXres.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libXres.i686 is X-Resource extension client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXres.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libXres.i686`

X-Resource is an extension that allows a client to query the X server about its usage of various resources.

We can use yum to install libXres.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libXres.i686.

Install libXres.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libXres.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libXres.i686

How To Uninstall libXres.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libXres.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libXres.i686

libXres.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libXRes.so.1
/usr/lib/libXRes.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libXres-1.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libXres-1.2.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libXres-1.2.0/COPYING

References

libXres.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXres.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.